Percussion quartet composed for Talujon Percussion Quartet to perform on a concert presented by Friends and Enemies of New Music in New York in 1996.

Because it is fairly brief but full of variety and specific challenges, Anima has proved popular among conservatory and professional percussion departments, becoming the most-performed work in the catalog.

 

for percussion quartet (moderate instrumentation) / 5 min.

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Program Note

Stasis and motion; weight and weightlessness; pulse and impulse: these are the materials of Anima. Two heavy downbeats, immobile; a stream of offbeats takes flight, forever in motion. The reverberation of a bell hangs in space, suspends time: Anima delves into that reverberation, into that moment between moments, and explodes the lingering sonority into a world of rhythm and texture. The silence roars with life; the interval of reflection is filled with vivid experience, with wonder and shudders of awe.

—Theodore Wiprud

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